There is nothing zanierThan the feast neomenia.Rosh Codesh, the Law.Trumpets, burnt lamb, no flaw.

Once a month with no delay.Stop to feast, not play.Music played to glorifyBurned meat, God to supply.

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The neomenia, or first day of the moon, kept according to the law, as a festival; and therefore Saul feasted on that day: and expected the attendance of his family. (The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision)

[Erudite participants in WotD will remember that word from 2006, making it unsuitable for today. Rule #1: No repeats. Today's word, from Wordnik, does not even appear in the English versions ofODO.]

Words are a game. Sometimes I play alone, but you are welcome to play, too.

Today, the posting is sort of contre-jour by being put on the forum at the end of a day instead of the beginning (as seen from the myopic viewpoint of a resident of the US east coast). The waning light is fading over my shoulder instead of coming through a morning window into my face.

Words are a game. Sometimes I play alone, but you are welcome to play, too.

No eclipse visible here. There was yet another snow event, a light event in this case, which obscured the sky as it put two inches of new whiteness on our sidewalk. The abat-jour of the snow clouds shaded us, obscuring the contre-jour effects.

Words are a game. Sometimes I play alone, but you are welcome to play, too.

Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒdlɪbɛt/noun1 archaic A topic for or exercise in philosophical or theological discussion: an author of theological lectures and quodlibets2 literary A light-hearted medley of well-known tunes.

Pronunciation: /ˈduːfʌs/(also dufus)noun (plural doofuses)North American informalA stupid person: a doofus who paid an inflated price for a tatty house

Origin1960s: perhaps an alteration of goofus, or from Scots doof 'dolt'.

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Sorry for having been away so long.The word doofus irresistibly evokes in my mind the name of the late (lamented ?) Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of Austria Engelbert Dollfuß, himself a fascist but whose assassination by Austrian Nazis paved the way to the Anschluß, a few years later. He was nicknamed "Millimetternich" in reference to his size (about 5', give or take an inch, according to the source) and his diplomatic pretentions… Just one thousandth of his role model, the much taller Fürst Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, also much more famous, or rather infamous, depending on whom you ask.

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌɪnəʃʊə/ /ˈsɪnəʃʊə/ /ˈsʌɪnəzjʊə/ /ˈsɪnəzjʊə/noun[in singular]A person or thing that is the centre of attention or admiration: Kirk was the cynosure of all eyes

OriginLate 16th century: from French, or from Latin cynosura, from Greek kunosoura 'dog's tail' (also 'Ursa Minor'), from kuōn, kun- 'dog' + oura 'tail'. The term originally denoted the constellation Ursa Minor, or the pole star which it contains, long used as a guide by navigators.

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The market slid, slipped and then crashed.Stock sold slow; few with scant profits cashed.We were really in a pickle.Investors dwindled to a trickle.

With high hopes grand we did procureNew VC angel, our cynosure.He is our guide out of despair,Charismatic, handsome debonair.

This time next year we'll shout and cheer.Our new product, goals, direction clear.No shady deals will we involve."Tim Terrific" will all problems solve.

Words are a game. Sometimes I play alone, but you are welcome to play, too.

Paul was so pretentious that he wrote his own eulogy and had it delivered in print to the entire parish by Federal Express. It is high praise that three people actually read the inroduction before, like the others of the parish, placing the eulogy beside the phone books in the recycling bin.

Words are a game. Sometimes I play alone, but you are welcome to play, too.

Pronunciation: /ˈjuːlədʒi/noun (plural eulogies)A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, especially a tribute to someone who has just died: a eulogy to the Queen Mother

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The prefix "eu-" has the same etymology ("good" in ancient Greek) as the prefix "u-" in utopia. The opposite of an utopia is often called a dystopia ( George Orwell's _1984_, Ira Levin's _This perfect Day, etc.)So I wonder. How many dyslogies were ever delivered in front on the graves of people whose deaths were not lamented ?

Apparently the tech industry does not appreciate muliebrity in its ranks. Women report rude, crude and downright nasty reactions from many male peers. In fact, the males sometimes don't view women as peers.

Words are a game. Sometimes I play alone, but you are welcome to play, too.

Louis XIV was never fond of the nobles known as frondeurs. Though still a child, he thought them too wild, challenging his rule while he was still in school. It has not been reported whether he and his closest friends played the kids' game with those slings known as "frondes" from which the rebels gained their name.

[By the way, for all those who paid the same level of attention in history class as I did, the rumors that Marie Antoinette was a childhood friend of Louis XIV are totally wrong. I just checked. They are three or four generations removed from one another.]

Words are a game. Sometimes I play alone, but you are welcome to play, too.